Advocates concerned former Union County Jail could become ICE facility
The Union County Jail has been closed since 2021. Some are concerned the facility could be purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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4ds agoThe Union County Jail may be going up for sale.
The Union County Jail has been closed since 2021. All of the inmates once housed there were moved to Essex County, a savings of $100 million for Union.
If it goes up for sale, there are concerns that it’ll be bought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and turned into an immigrant detention center.
Those who represent the families being targeted by the Trump administration for mass deportation are worried.
“It’s going to normalize this sense of fear in the community. It’s going to make it OK to incarcerate people for profit,” said Banan Bdelrahman, with American Friends Service Committee.
ICE is already planning to reopen Delaney Hall, a detention center by the airport in Newark.
That plan has been met with protests.
The Union County commissioners have said publicly that they have no plans for the jail before proposals are submitted.
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